There are two graphing tools users can either select one site with multiple years of temperature data (top graph) or select one year with multiple sites (bottom graph). View historical and current water temperatures collected at PEI mussel and oyster monitoring sites using the Water Temperature Visualization Tool. View most recent water temperatures at Oyster Growth Water Temperatures (not updated during Winter). Oysters are a type of shellfish that live in brackish and saltwater bays, estuaries, and tidal creeks. As generation after generation of spat grow into adult oysters, they form dense clusters known as oyster reefs or beds. To receive the weekly results of the oyster spat surveys, call 1-88 or 1-90. Once oyster larvae attach to a surface, such as other oyster shells, they are known as spat (shown in inset image). You can receive the weekly results of the oyster spat surveys by telephone recording or on this website: This information is collected between June and August every year. This is accomplished through the monitoring of the number and size of oyster larvae in water samples collected from various sites throughout the province. The OMP primarily serves to provide information on spat-fall prediction to oyster farmers to assist them in determining when to deploy their spat collectors. This long-term monitoring in Wellfleet Harbor will provide a data set from a high resource area for comparative study in the future.The Oyster Monitoring Program (OMP) is a technical service provided to oyster growers since 2001. Research shows an increase in biodiversity and oyster population by 90%, establishing 6 million oysters in three years that provided a 70% nitrogen sink, improving the water quality in this area.īecause of Wellfleet’s unique environment and this restoration site, scientists from federal, state and private entities come to Wellfleet to conduct research. This site is being monitored by UMass Boston Green Harbors Project for biological changes and the Center for Coastal Studies for water quality assessment. This is the first experimental no-take shellfish sanctuary which is supported by the local shellfish constable and Division of Marine Fisheries as a means of evaluating the environmental benefits with a particular focus on water quality. Two acres of this larger effort is designated as an Oyster Propagation site. This designation recognized the combined recycling and habitat restoration effort of SPAT and its collaborators. In 2012, SPAT and the Town of Wellfleet were acknowledged for this unprecedented effort and were awarded a Municipal Innovation Award. That is going to do a lot for creating a healthy wild oyster fishery habitat in Wellfleet Harbor! Combined with the Town of Wellfleet’s “cultching efforts” including another 2,500 tons of shell, we have restored over 35 acres of habitat! As a result of this addition of shell approximately 60 million new oysters will grow in the harbor that’s 15 times the annual harvest rate! As these oysters mature they will filter over 16 million gallons of water in the harbor each day and remove 400 pounds of nitrogen per year. a mariculture facility in Maryland for use in oyster gardening in St Leonard Creek, MD. Over the past six years, the OysterFest and its partners have reintroduced over 30 tons of shells back into the harbor. Close up of oyster shells on which spat (baby oysters) have settled. This effort has taken significant steps to reducing solid waste at the event while vastly improving the water quality and fish habitat in Wellfleet Harbor. Our nursery spat thus grows from 1 mm to size 6 and is raised in an. Raised in the controlled environment of a micro-nursery until it reaches a size of 1 mm, our oyster spat is then passed through a sieving machine in water and sent on to a nursery. We mainly supply two sizes of oyster spat directly from our nurseries : size 6 and size 8. The Shell Recycling program was developed in 2009 through a partnership between SPAT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA) and the Town of Wellfleet Wastewater Committee. Nursery Oyster spat - Diploids and Triploids. The following spring, these shells were then reintroduced into Wellfleet Harbor to create habitat for shellfish and other marine species, enhance the amount of spat (baby oyster spawn) in the harbor, improve water quality by filtering particles and pollutants, and to protect the shoreline by creating a natural barrier from erosion. As a result, the Festival’s total solid waste stream was reduced by 32%. During the 2018 Festival, nearly 5 tons of the shell from consumed shellfish were collected. In late summer/early fall you can pick up your new spat and continue growing oysters for the. The OysterFest strives to be a “green event” by recycling as much as possible, but most importantly all of the oyster and clam shells. Ideally, you will return them to CBF in late spring/early summer.
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